Thursday, February 9, 2012

Hooray, she's gone!

This was a great day as it meant that JANUS has flown free. Susan and I took her to just about the exact place she was found after running into the tail end of a stock trailer as it went past the road kill deer she was feeding on. Luckily this adult female Golden Eagle wasn't broken but it did take a while for her to try flying again.

This photo is hard to make out as adult eagle feather coloration blends in with all the vegetation. Unfortunately she didn't clear the hill so I could get a shot of her in the sky. JANUS made a super flight and now has the rest of her life to live. Hopefully far from any busy highway.

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About Me

Born in Downers Grove, IL, I moved to Cody in 1981 after living in Boulder, CO for many years. As I enjoyed the outdoors and spent many weeks up in Wyoming going on horsepacking trips with friends, I decided to move here. I started Ironside Bird Rescue in 1987 after finding an orphaned Starling baby that had fallen out of its nest near my house. One thing led to another and after all these years the facility now has many different sized mews and flight barns for the exercise of raptors so they will be strong enough for release. I live in a 130+ year old log cabin with a corgi mix dog, her mother, a purebread corgi, a couple cats and many birds in a free flight aviary attached to the house. I'm now retired from a "real job". Along with rehabbing birds, I spend a lot of hours volunteering at our local Buffalo Bill Historical Center in the graphics department.